Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Bluntly speaking of "white liberals
us[ing] black people", Walter Williams likens the relationship between the left and black Americans to that
between a hunter and a stalking horse:

[Hunters] would walk
on the opposite side of the horse until they were close enough to
place a good shot on whatever they were hunting. A stalking horse not
only concealed them but also, if their target was an armed man and
they were discovered, would take the first shot.

Williams
then walks us through a few examples, each already outrageous taken alone, before
concluding:

Liberals desperately need blacks. If the
Democratic Party lost just 30 percent of the black vote, it would mean
the end of the liberal agenda. That means blacks must be kept in a
perpetual state of grievance in order to keep them as a one-party
people in a two-party system. When black Americans finally realize
how much liberals have used them, I'm betting they will be the
nation's most conservative people. Who else has been harmed as much by
liberalism's vision and agenda?

I agree with everything in
Williams' timely article except his adoption of the conventional label
"liberal" to describe leftists. That term once referred to
pro-capitalists, and derives from the Latin for "free". Even if
pro-capitalists deemed the term too ill-used to save, it remains too
good for the left to use without protest.

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CAV

P.S. Speaking of leftists and protests, and as further proof for something I relayed recently, Jim Holt reports
that many of the signs carried by the various anti-police protesters
across the country are being supplied by an outfit called the
"Revolutionary Communist Party".